Soaking

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A steeping; a wetting; a drenching.
  • noun. Intemperate and continual drinking. Compare soak, v. i., 4.
  • noun. The operation of desilverizing a lead regulus by running it into a bath of molten lead in the fore-hearth of a blast-furnace; also the operation of equalizing the temperature of steel ingots in a soaking-pit.
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  • adjective. Wetting thoroughly; drenching.
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  • verb. Present participle of soak.
  • noun. Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
  • adjective. Extremely wet; saturated.
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  • noun. the act of making something completely wet
  • noun. the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
  • adverb. extremely wet
  • noun. washing something by allowing it to soak
    • Word Usage
    "That tub is what I call a soaking tub, and I hope you got some time to put it to that use."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    action  activity  lavation  natural action  natural process  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    antismoking  broking  choking  cloaking  coking  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    absorbent  adsorbent  assimilative  awash  bathed  
    verb-stem
    soak  
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